SIGIR: Meet the Who’s Who of Search and Information Retrieval

Matt Cutts. danah boyd. Bruce Croft. Marti Hearst. What do these people have in common? If you’re thinking that they are some of the biggest names in the research and practice of search and information retrieval, then you have at least part of the answer. For full credit, the answer is that they are some of the people who will be presenting during the SIGIR Industry Track on Wednesday, July 22nd at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

There have been some changes from the original program. As noted above, Bruce Croft and Marti Hearst are now participating. They will offer research counterpoints to the panels of industry practitioners (vendors and analysts). Autonomy bowed out of the vendor panel; instead, we’re including Raul Valdes-Perez, the executive chairman (and founder) of Vivisimo. We also received regrets from the Open Calais folks at Thomson Reuters; instead, we’ll hear from Evan Sandhaus, semantic technologist at the New York Times.

If you’re registered for the full SIGIR conference, then you are entitled to attend any or all of the Industry Track at no additional charge.

Otherwise, there’s also a one-day registration option for people only interested in attending the Industry Track. The cost for that one-day option is $350 (half of that for students). I should be able to get you the early registration rate of $300 if you contact me as soon as possible, and I can try to negotiate a group rate if a company want to send at least four people.

If you live in the Boston area and are interested in search and information retrieval (or you know people who are), this is an incredible opportunity to see the worlds of research and practice come together. I’m excited to be organizing it, and looking forward to attending it. If you have not yet registered but are interested in attending, please let me know ASAP, and I’ll see what I can do.

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Aw, not only do I love SIGIR but I love Boston. Such a big shame I’ve had to pass.

Some of my favourite people in science, let alone search are on this list. Almost every single on of my favourite papers had Bruce Croft’s name on it, and Marti Hearst is all over my bibliography. I met Elizabeth Liddy a few years ago in Boston actually, she’s a smart little lady.